Company says it’s replacing 13 committees with new engagement system it hasn’t yet designed
B.C. Ferries advisory committee chairs were stunned to learn Monday that all 13 committees are being shut down at the end of April, to be replaced by a new engagement system that has not yet been designed.
B.C. Ferries officials informed advisory committee members in a conference call on Monday of its decision to dismantle committees.B.C. Ferries has not asked committees to help develop a better engagement process and did not ask for suggestions, Mumford said. “They put us on the back burner and they have been doing that for the last, I would say, year and a half to two years.”
It says it will collaborate with ferry advisory committees, residents, customers, local governments and MLAs, First Nations, and other groups to design its new engagement model, which will replace the advisory committees and be in place in May 2025. In terms of representation, applications to join the committees are examined by committee chairs before being forwarded with recommendations to B.C. Ferries, which makes the final appointments, said Mumford, adding names are provided that are representative of a community.
“We’ve been working on anything except for operational issues and getting down to what matters in communities,” he said. “The FACs have been asking time and time again to get down to that and it’s just been stalling and stalling and stalling.”
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